From: [email protected] (Petter Larsson)
Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan
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('Blonde on Blonde' album)
ADE7A
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
DE7A
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
EA
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
DA
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
DA
In this room the heat pipes just cough
D
The country music station plays soft
AE7
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
ADE7A
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
DAE7ADA
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.
ADE7A
In the empty lot where the ladies play blind man's bluff with the key chain
DE7A
And the allnight girls, they whisper of escapades out on the D train
E
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
A
Ask himself if it's him or them that's realy insane
DA
Louise, she's allright, she's just near
DA
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
D
But she just makes it all too concice and too clear
AE7
That Johanna's not here
ADE7A
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
DAE7ADA
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.
ADE7A
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
DE7A
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
EA
And when bringing her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
DA
He's sure got a lotta gall
DA
To be so useless and all
D
Muttering small talk at the wall
AE7
while I'm in the hall
ADE7A
How can I explain? Oh, it's so hard to get on
DAE7ADA
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn.
ADE7A
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
DE7A
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
EA
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles
DA
See the primitive wallflower freeze
DA
When the jellyfaced women all sneeze
DAE7
Hear the one with the mustache say, Jeeze, I can't find my knees
ADE7A
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
DAE7ADA
But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel.
ADE7A
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin' Name me someone that's not a parasite
DE7A
and I'll go out and say a prayer for him. But like Louise
E
always says, Ya can't look at much, can ya man? As she, herself, pre
A
-pares for him
DA
And Madonna, she still has not showed
DD
We see this empty cage now corrode
DA
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
DA
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
DA
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
DAE7
On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes
ADEA
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
DAE7A
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.
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Typed by Petter Larsson , [email protected]